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Links for August 31st

Let's build bigger banquet tables | Rachel Held Evans
"That is the question at the heart of this crisis, and as we struggle together to answer it, I am convinced that what we don’t need is bigger buildings or fancier sound equipment, better pastors or more parishioners, newer ministries or deeper pockets. What we need is bigger banquet tables."
tags:
church
jesus
rachel-held-evans

Links for August 27th

small is plenty « the carnival in my head
Thoughts on why small things really are enough, in life, church, ministry, and so on. There's a great deal of depth (though it isn't guaranteed and can be missing from small things) that is available to us when we do small things, and these are beautiful.
tags:
spirituality
church
ministry
kathy-escobar

Links for August 25th

The Parent Company Trap – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – 08/23/2010 – Video Clip | Comedy Central
"Fox News is either evil or stupid for not mentioning that Alwaleed bin Talal is News Corp.'s largest shareholder."
tags:
jon-stewart
politics
video
Alex McManus » Blog Archive » The Cart and the Horse
"We oftentimes proceed as if Jesus and Paul focused on evangelism and they did not. They didn’t focus on church planting either. They focused on discipleship. Neither evangelism nor church planting happen without disciples."
tags:
ministry
church
evangelism

Links for August 20th

Beyond City Limits – By Parag Khanna | Foreign Policy
"Cities — not so-called failed states like Afghanistan and Somalia — are the true daily test of whether we can build a better future or are heading toward a dystopian nightmare."
tags:
globalization
economics
culture
cities

Links for August 19th

the best part of wanting to change the world « eugene cho
"The best part of wanting to change the world…is that you get changed in the process." This is a powerful read for me, especially since I can relate to parts of it and hope to relate to other parts of it.
tags:
activism
faith

Links for August 15th

RGBa & HSLa CSS Generator for Internet Explorer | Journal | Kimili
This generates IE-specific CSS filters (that you can load with a conditional comment) to cause IE to support RGBa color, which is one of my favorite parts of CSS3.
tags:
tools
ie
design
css3
css

Links for August 13th

jQuery Mobile | jQuery Mobile
"A unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation."
tags:
programming
design
jquery
mobile
javascript

Links for August 3rd

A List Apart: Articles: No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas
"Each one of us brings an area of specialization to our projects, and it is our responsibility to exhibit that expertise. If you don’t know anything that no one else on your team knows, then it’s probably time to walk away. But if you do, it is your duty to assert that capability and share your knowledge for the betterment of the final product."
tags:
leadership
user-experience
business
usability
design

Links for July 28th

Derek Powazek – Thoughts on Designing for iPad
Some early thoughts from leading the design team on an iPad app. I think it's important for us to gather these thoughts and learn from them as this environment begins fruition.
tags:
user-experience
apple
ipad
design
Daring Fireball: An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
A solid regular expression for URL matching. Invaluable to have around, easy to forget about.
tags:
regex
programming
RFC (2)822 & 3696 Email Address Parser in PHP
A pattern for validating email addresses in PHP.
tags:
php
regex
programming
Mobile-friendly: The mobile web optimization guide – Opera Developer Community
"This article provides an overview of three different strategies to make your websites work across all devices. We'll call them "mobile-aware" websites, as they're not specifically for mobile sites, but they will work on mobile, as well as across different alternative browsing devices. These strategies are not mutually exclusive; you can mix and match as your project, budget and sanity allows."
tags:
css
html
web-standards
mobile
design
Creating Cross Browser HTML5 Forms Now, Using modernizr, webforms2 and html5Widgets
This allows all browsers to support HTML5 form elements. Several browsers support various parts natively and it won't mess with this, but overall support is still sketchy and this helps resolve that for now.
tags:
javascript
html5
html
forms

Links for July 27th

America's god is dying – ABC Religion & Ethics – Opinion
Brilliant words from Stanley Hauerwas on why America's god is just that: an American god, and further that this god is dying. Beyond that, he indicates why this is such a good thing.
tags:
politics
theology
culture

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